Equities

The commission's Division of Examinations said it had found examples of 'potentially misleading statements' concerning ESG processes, according to a recent risk alert.

In the first quarter of 2021, companies were 14 times more likely to have positively raised or initiated a dividend than negatively cut or suspended dividend payments. This was nearly triple the ratio from a year earlier.

We're in a stock-pickers' market.

In this week’s fund news, Morningstar points to lax risk controls and personnel issues at Ark, CFRA acquires technical research shop Lowry, and Goldman will soon bring cryptos to private wealth clients.

In this week's fund news, SPDR’s head of research, Matthew Bartolini, uses the GME frenzy as a case study for ETFs’ effectiveness; the Mooch and Fidelity file for Bitcoin ETFs; and iShares and State Street slash ETF fees.

Robinhood could go public as soon as late in the second quarter but the timing could change.

Rapid changes in interest rates and volatile equity returns can cause multiple problems.